Crashing Into You by B.D. Rowe
Publisher: B.D. Rowe
Publishing Date: Nov 5, 2013
Genre: Romance, New Adult
Summary Bookish college sophomore Sydney Baker wants Evan Taylor with everything ounce of her being. The hottest stud on campus. Evan is si foot four, ripped, stacked with muscles. He's even easy to talk to.
There's just one problem: he's her roommate Melanie's boyfriend.
But when Melanie tragically dies after a night of wild partying, Sydney and Evan turn to each other in a time of intense grief. And it doesn't take long for their close friendship to blossom into something more.
Unfortunately for Sydney, secrets from the past soon put her relationship with Evan to the test. Especially when sexy blonde freshman makes her way into Evan's life, and tries to rip away everything Sydney holds close to her hear.
Discovery (Electi) by Brina Courtney
Publishing Date: Oct 15, 2013
Publisher: Laurlis Press
Summary:
Discoveries can be dangerous. Discoveries can be deadly.
Nine months ago, Teagan Matthews' boyfriend disappeared and took her sense of stability with him. But when the opportunity to live with her aging grandmother in Salem arises, she decides it's time to get on with her life. A new home, new job, and new friends are adding up to a beautiful summer...
....until a young girl's body shows up one night in town, wearing a pentagram necklace exactly like Teagan's.
Now a guy, looking remarkable like her missing boyfriend, has arriaved in Salem along with a mysterious stranger, who may have some answers that Teagan has desperately been searching for. Teagan must now decide who to trust. It's a matter of life... and her death.
Intent to Kill by Ryshia Kennie
Publishing Date: Oct 18, 2013
Publisher: Beyond the Pages Publishing
Genre: Mystery/ & Thrillers, Romance
Summary:
A ruthless band of smugglers will stop of at nothing to strip Cambodia of its priceless artifacts, even if it means using and killing female tourists. Journalist Claire Linton knows she's on to the story of a lifetime. But for Claire, it's personal too: long before her "Uncle Jack" came to the U.S., he was held captive int he nightmarish killing fields of Cambodia, and Claire senses there might be a connection between that long-ago bloody history and the dark crimes plaguing the country today.
Simon Trent is a burnt-out interpol agent who quit the service and was forced to disappear after his last case turned fatal. But with the resurgence in smuggling and all signs pointing to the man who once escaped his grasp, he comes out of hiding to finish the job that's haunted him for years. What he doesn't see coming is Claire, the beatifiuk and headstrong reporter who may be a threat to his case- and to his heart.
As Claire and Simon reluctantly join forces to unravel a mystery that reaches deep into her family history an dmay be his only chance at redemption, they must fight to stay one step ahead of a brutal killer and one step away from the dangerous feelings building between them.
Plague by Lisa Hinsley
Publishing Date: December 9, 2013
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Publisher: Pocket Star
Summary:In this enthralling debut thriller in the vein of Contagion, a young couple struggles to save their plague-stricken son as they desperately fight back against a tyrannical government.
A new strain of the bubonic plague is diagnosed in London. Before it can be contained it spreads through the population, faster and deadlier than anyone could have imagined. Three weeks is all it takes for decimate the country.
Johnny and Liz are devastated when their young son, Nathan, starts to show symptoms, but Liz phones the authorities anyway, and a few hours later, the army arrives and boards up their house.
Now Nathan is dying and there is nothing they can do to help him. Hours pass like weeks as their little boy grows weaker and weaker. All Liz want is for them to die with some dignity, but the authorities refuse to help. Then their Internet and phones stop working. Cut off from the world and stuck inside their house, the family tries its best to cope- but there is nothing they can do to stop the lethal epidemic.
Breaking Nova by Jessica Sorensen
Publishing Date: September 3, 2013
Publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing)
Genre: New Adult
Summary: Nova Reed used to have derams-of-becoming a famous drummer, of marrying her true love. But all of that was taken away in an instant. Now she's getting by as best as she can, though sometimes that means doing things the old Nova would never do. Things that are slowly eating away at her spirit. Every day blends into the next... until she meets Quinton Carter. His intense, honey brown eyes instantly draw her in, and he looks just about as broken as she feels inside.
Quinton once got a second chance at life- but he doesn't want it. The tattoos on his chest are a constant reminder of what he's done, and what he's lost. He's sworn to never allow happiness into his life... but then beautiful Nova makes him smile. He knows he's too damaged to get close to her, yet she's the only one who can make him feel alive again. Quinton will have to decide; does he deserve to start over? Or should he pay for his past forever?
Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever (The Ghetto Girl Romance of Quadrilogy, Book 1) by L.V. Lewis
Publishing Date: Oct 31, 2012
Publisher: Jungle Fever Press
Genre: Erotica, Romance
Summary: Keisha Beale, a street-wise Chicago south-sider two years out of DePaul University, is a quarter million dollars in start-up capital away from realizing her dream of owning a recording studio/record store. She takes the place of her more business-savvy partner in a meeting with Tristan White himself, the venture capitalist they've targeted to fund their business.
A bi-racial--African American and Brazilian--woman with a troubled past, Keisha has been so focused on her business pursuits that her love life has been non-existent. Tristan White is the devastatingly handsome, 32-year old CEO of White Enterprises, the firm he build using only the inheritance his mother left him to prove to his father he had the mette to do it alone. He comes from a long line of wealth, and he lives the life of a"one-percenter" on Chicago's Gold Coast. Tristan is accustomed to controlling every aspect of his life given into a world of white privilege.
50 Shades To The 2nd Power...
When Keisha and Tristan's worlds collide, sparks fly, and a fever is ignited in them both that they have never experienced before, it turns out that they each have secrets, but together, in the unorthodox arrangement Tristan proposes, they discover passions they never knew they had.
Becoming Clissine (Bastia, Book 1) by Anastasia Vitsky
Publisher: Lazy Day Publishing
Publishing Date: Oct 22, 2013
Genre: New Adult, Sci-fi & Fantasy
Summary:
What if heterosexuality were a crime?
Bethrothed at birth to the daughter of the most prominent Houses in the totalitarian theocracy of Bastia, soon-to-be-college-graduate Clissa isn't sure whether she is ready to undergo the Mar. Once she becomes the Nur, or the submissive partner, to her bethrothed she will have to submit all major decisions to her life to the beautiful Helaine, whom she has met once. She must marry a woman, according to the decrees of Bastian law.
Caught between a desire to "get along" and the growing awareness he iis "het" and is attracted to Clissa, her childhood friend, Destral, kisses her one day as they study in their college library. Shocked at the feeling the kiss awakens, Clissa begins to question everything she has been taught. Did Basti, their deity, condemn relationships between a man and a woman? Will her growing feelings for Destral cost her everything her parents have worked hard to give her?
After a mad attempt to subvert Bastian authority, Clissa is assigned to new parents for "reeducation" in the doctrine of Bastia. Her new parents are given one mandate, bring her back to rightness with Basti.
Clissa, list in a system threatened by her very identity, must make her choice. Will Bastian authority break her, or will she find a way to break free? Can true love overcome a harsh regime?
The Summer I Found You by Jolene Perry
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Publishing Date: Mar 1 2014
Genre: Romance, Teen/YA
Summary: All they have in common is that they're less than perfect. And all they're looking for is hte perfect distraction.
Kate's dream boyfriend has just broken up with her and she's still reeling from her diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Aidan planned on being a lifer in the army and went to Afghanistan straight out of high school. Now he's a disabled young veteran struggling to embrace his new life. When Kate and Aidan find each other neither one wants to get attached. But could they be right for each other after all?
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